Geriatric Emergency Department Fall Injury Prevention Project
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Fall, Fall Injury, Emergencies
In brief
This prospective randomized study will assess an emergency department (ED) based prevention strategy in geriatric patients at high risk for recurrent falls and injury. Falling is a major health hazard in older adults with a number of proposed but unproven protocols to prevent fall-related injuries. This study proposes to study one of these strategies, the CDC's Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths and Injuries program (the STEADI Program).
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05807724
- Run by
- Florida Atlantic University
- People needed
- 644
- Starts
- 2023-04-01
- Expected to finish
- 2024-12-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-02-24
Who can join
Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients over the age of 65 with a ground level fall who live at home will be eligible for study inclusion
You may not qualify if…
- Being transferred from another facility, trauma activation, hospice or palliative care participant, end-stage heart failure (two or more congestive heart failure hospitalizations in past 6 months), end stage emphysema (two or more chronic obstructive pulmonary disease hospitalizations in past 6 months), metastatic cancer, severe leukemia or multiple myeloma or lymphoma on treatment or requiring transfusion and end stage renal disease requiring dialysis. An additional exclusion criterion is patients with dementia, if the subject is unable to state name or unable to point to an object (for those with aphasia)
Where it is running
- Delray Medical Center — Delray Beach, Florida, United States
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